Thanksgiving

Every holiday table has a lineup of reliable sides, but the ones people talk about on the drive home are the dishes with a little personality. These hot honey sweet potatoes are exactly that: sweet potatoes roasted until their edges caramelize into crisp, amber-brown sweetness, then finished with a glossy drizzle of honey warmed with…

Corn casserole is the holiday side dish that never has leftovers. It is sweet, creamy, spoonable, and endlessly comforting — the dish that sits between the mashed potatoes and the green beans and somehow disappears first. Now picture that same casserole finished with a glossy drizzle of hot honey. Sweet heat on top of sweet…

If classic bread stuffing is the traditionalist’s choice, cornbread sausage stuffing is the crowd-pleaser — the pan that gets scraped clean while the other sides still have leftovers. Sweet, buttery cornbread crumbles into a tender, slightly coarse texture that soaks up savory sausage drippings and herbed broth beautifully. Add browned breakfast sausage, sweet onion, celery,…

There is a reason classic Thanksgiving stuffing shows up on nearly every holiday table in America: it is the dish that tastes like Thanksgiving itself. Cubes of sturdy bread, toasted until crisp at the edges, soak up a savory custard of butter, onion, celery, and broth, then bake into a golden casserole that is crisp…

Smoking a turkey breast low and slow is one of the simplest ways to turn a modest cut of meat into the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving table. A generous coat of garlic-herb butter goes under and over the skin, a smoky-spiced dry rub goes on top, and then the smoker does the rest of the…

A spatchcock turkey with dry brine is the Thanksgiving centerpiece that solves the two biggest problems of roast turkey: dry breast meat and a bird that takes all afternoon in the oven. Spatchcocking — also called butterflying — means cutting out the backbone with kitchen shears and flattening the turkey so it roasts in a…

Friendsgiving turkey sliders are the answer to the one question every holiday host eventually asks: how do you feed a crowd something that tastes like Thanksgiving without cooking a second turkey. Soft slider buns get piled with roasted turkey (or shredded leftovers), tangy-sweet cranberry sauce, and melty Swiss cheese, then the whole tray gets brushed…

Every holiday cook knows the oven is prime real estate on Thanksgiving. The turkey takes up most of it, the rolls need a hot minute, and something always ends up cooling on the counter while another dish finishes. This crockpot stuffing solves that problem completely — all of the classic savory flavor of traditional dressing,…

A whole roasted turkey is a wonderful thing, but it is also a full-day commitment with a bird the size of a toddler fighting for oven space. This slow cooker turkey breast solves every part of that problem. A single bone-in or boneless breast — a fraction of the cost and effort of a whole…

Green bean casserole is the side dish Thanksgiving tables never argue about — and this from-scratch version earns its spot without a single can of condensed soup. The sauce starts with real mushrooms, onion, and garlic cooked down in butter, then gets whisked into a silky cream sauce that coats every green bean. The result…